upgrading the drainage system within the tunnel under Building 5 and 6 at Canberra Hospital

upgrading the drainage system outside of Building 20 at Canberra Hospital

upgrading the ambulance bays under Building 19 at Canberra Hospital

upgrading various negative pressure room doors throughout Building 1 at Canberra Hospital

upgrading bathrooms and kitchens in the Building 5 Residential area at Canberra Hospital

upgrading generators at Canberra Hospital

upgrading the Central Outpatients area in Building 1 at Canberra Hospital

constructing a new Cryogenics facility at Canberra Hospital.

Details of the capital works program are included in section C.3, Capital works.

Property, plant and equipment are maintained to a high standard to meet health requirements. Expenditure on repairs and maintenance, excluding salaries, was $18.331 million, which represents 1.6 per cent of the replacement value.

Building audits

Thirteen building condition assessments, hazardous materials audits and fire reports were undertaken to assess buildings managed by ACT Health. These audits are used to inform the directorate’s ongoing asset management program. The condition audits assessed these properties as being in normal or good condition.

Condition of assets

The condition audits described above assessed buildings managed by ACT Health as being in normal or good condition.

Office accommodation

The agency employs 7,195 staff, of whom 1,289 occupy office-style accommodation in the sites listed in Table 2 at an average utilisation rate of 13.4 square meters (m2) per employee. Total office-style accommodation occupied is 17,838m2.

Table 55: Office accommodation

Location

Property

Owned / leased

Work points/staff on 30 June 2016

Office area (m2)

Utilisation rate m2 per employee

Civic

1 Moore Street Level 3

Leased

145

1,954

13.5

Civic

11 Moore Street Level 3

Leased

75

1,161

15.5

Curtin

Carruthers Street

Leased

178

3,187

17.9

Garran

TCH Building 2

Owned

63

793

12.6

Garran

TCH Building 6

Owned

219

3,051

13.9

Garran

TCH Building 12 Medical Records

Owned

65

613

9.4

Garran

TCH Building 22

Leased

24

243

10.1

Garran

TCH Building 23

Owned

137

1,810

13.2

Garran

TCH Building 24

Owned

69

1,332

19.3

Holder

Health Protection Services

Owned

81

1,163

14.4

Phillip

Callam Offices

Leased

86

740

8.6

Woden

Bowes Place

Leased

147

1,791

12.1

A further 5,906 staff are employed in non-office environments within ACT Health’s acute and non-acute facilities. Due to the clinical nature of these workplaces, the average area per employee is not applicable.